Operation Whiskey Fox

Operation Whiskey Fox (18 June 1968) was a US military operation of the Vietnam War with the purpose of evicting the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) from the Vietnamese river valley on the demilitarized zone. Carried out by MACV-SOG, the operation succeeded in destroying the Vietnamese troops.

Operation
In June 1968, General William Westmoreland authorized an operation to clear out a river valley that was used by North Vietnamese Army irregulars under Le Duan Fang to ambush US Marine Corps and South Vietnamese Army troops. The Americans had air support from nearby airbases, while the NVA army was aided by a Chinese-made SAM missile system and a gunship supplied by the PRC.

A force of 300 MACV-SOG troops were sent by Westmoreland to clear out the valley, where NVA troops hid along the river in villages, trees, and cliffs. The SOG troops and NVA troops fought in an intense crossfire near a bridge over the valley in the center of the area, and the Americans radioed in for a Rolling Thunder airstrike and a napalm strike, killing many NVA troops. Although the Americans suffered heavy losses (around 100), they were successful in killing 127 NVA troops, including Colonel Le.